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156 Application and Verification<br />

not change do the back to back topology. The real time NP curr<strong>en</strong>t function is still valid for the<br />

individual inverters and virtual vectors may still be g<strong>en</strong>erated on the level of individual converters.<br />

All concepts proposed in the frame of this thesis still may be applied. The sharing of the control<br />

task has not be<strong>en</strong> investigated in the frame of this thesis. Lee proposes a coupled controller to<br />

improve performance [79]. Pou has mad an analysis of the limits of zero NP curr<strong>en</strong>t operation for<br />

back to back system [109]. With a suitable choice of nominal and worst case AFE operating point,<br />

this range can be significantly increased ev<strong>en</strong> if the load inverter is operating at high modulation<br />

<strong>de</strong>pth and large load angle. The analysis has be<strong>en</strong> done for the 3-L NPC with a NTV SVM, but the<br />

concept could be ext<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>d to a higher number of levels and differ<strong>en</strong>t modulator types, which could<br />

be the subject of future research.<br />

7.2.4 Single phase applications<br />

Single phase systems cannot make use of any of the proposed NP control schemes. However,<br />

NP control is relatively straight forward as shown in paragraph 4.7.1.1. The NP curr<strong>en</strong>t can always<br />

be positive or negative in<strong>de</strong>p<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>tly of modulation <strong>de</strong>pth or load angle.<br />

Single phase applications inclu<strong>de</strong> for example railway applications, which are usually DC or<br />

single phase AC supplied. A particularly important feature of such applications is that reactive<br />

power can not be circulated betwe<strong>en</strong> phases like in multiphase systems and as a result, there is a<br />

second harmonic fluctuation in the DC link voltage. This has a significant impact on the<br />

dim<strong>en</strong>sioning and control of the DC link capacitors. The required DC link capacitance is typically<br />

very large to <strong>en</strong>sure a maximum voltage ripple. An alternate DC link capacitor control approach has<br />

be<strong>en</strong> investigated in the frame of this thesis (docum<strong>en</strong>ted in [2]): In reactive power comp<strong>en</strong>sation<br />

applications, the DC link capacitor is allowed to discharge in every half cycle to a very low voltage.<br />

This reduces the required capacitive <strong>en</strong>ergy and has a positive impact on losses and output voltage<br />

THD.<br />

The concept can also be ext<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>d to ML topologies. In spite of the inher<strong>en</strong>tly good capacitor<br />

controllability in single phase systems, the variable DC link operation in ML converters is not<br />

straight forward. There are conflicting targets regarding FC dim<strong>en</strong>sioning and control. Flying<br />

capacitors should be relatively large to minimize the voltage ripple at the switching frequ<strong>en</strong>ce; on<br />

the other hand they should be small to allow for a dynamic variation of the refer<strong>en</strong>ce voltage. A in<strong>de</strong>pth<br />

investigation of this topic has not be<strong>en</strong> done in the frame of this thesis. For more<br />

information on the proposed variable DC link approach, the rea<strong>de</strong>r is referred to [2, 3].

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